Re: Desserts - who needs them? Day 4

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I lose when I fast or cleanse...

Suzidonnachagnon@... wrote:

Oh my . . . I'm in heaven! orange/banana smoothies, tahini milk . . . dang this stuff is sweet, filling and fulfilling! Who needs desserts when you have tahini milk and smoothies! Day 4 was the easiest so far. I awoke this morning feeling very clear headed - no cloudiness at all. I remember thinking "so this is what we are supposed to feel like." I had to pick up some items at the grocery store and so I got my salad in their salad bar. I felt very lethargic after eating the salad and put it down to the fact that there was probably refined sugar in the Italian salad dressing they had. The only craving I had today was while I was in the grocery store and I wanted a candy bar in the worst way, but I didn't get one. (Phew!) For dinner I had salsa and jicama.

Interesting combination. Not distasteful . . . just different. Maybe it is the texture that was new to me. I have never had jicama before. I'm not sure if it was the jicama or green onion that I was fighting. The pain in my arm is now gone . . . I still have the numbness in that arm but at least the pain is gone - due to raw food? One can hope! The doctor was going to give me cortisone shots in my arm tomorrow. Hmm, I guess he'll be surprised, eh?!! Seems everyone at the office wants to know what I am eating every day now. No - they aren't interested in eating it. I think there are silent bets as to how long I will eat this way and if "it works." Those of you who have lost weight since eating raw how long did it take you to begin to lose weight? I saw a story recently (probably here) where a man had lost a great deal of weight and he didn't have

any sagging skin because of the raw food eating plan. Have others found that to be the case? I need to lose weight but I don't care if I do or not. My goal here is to feel healthy. Donna